# The Preston Dock Railway Order 2004, Article 7: For the protection of gas transporters


(1) Paragraph (2) shall have effect during the term of any lease granted under article 3(1), and from the operative date of any sale under article 3(2), and shall apply to so much of the railways as is so leased or sold, as the case may be, by the Council to the undertaker.
(2) Nothing in this Order shall prejudice or affect the statutory or other rights of any gas transporters within the meaning of Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986 in or relating to any pipe, main or apparatus belonging to them or for the maintenance of which they are responsible, or any structure for the lodging therein of any pipe, main or apparatus, being any pipe, main or apparatus or structure situated under, over or upon lands in or upon or near to which the railways or any part thereof are or is constructed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3126/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/preston-dock-railway-order-2004/article-7
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